Who?
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) — US Senate Armed Services Committee
LISTEN: Laslo & Kaine
Ask a Pol asks:
What do you make of President Donald Trump calling out America’s NATO allies — including threatening to withhold military support in future conflicts — after European countries refused to send naval support to reopen the Strait of Hormuz?
Key Kaine:
“[President Trump’s] been non-stop screwing around with NATO allies during his whole time in office. Imposing tariffs on them, threatening to invade a NATO ally* and, you know, it is Human Relations 101 that after you’ve kicked people around, when you suddenly ask them to help you out, they’re not going to be that interested,” Sen. Tim Kaine exclusively tells Ask a Pol Politics. “So he should stop kicking them around, and then he might get more cooperation.”
*ie, Greenland
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Caught our ear:
“If the President was full-throated in his support of Ukraine, that might be a more powerful argument,” Kaine tells us. “Instead, the Europeans are looking and going, ‘But wait a minute…’”
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol‘s exclusive interview with Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), slightly edited for clarity.
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TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Tim Kaine
SCENE: As Sen. Tim Kaine was making his way to the Senate floor to vote via the US Capitol’s basement, Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo started walking with him before hopping a Senators Only elevator with the senior member of the powerful and largely bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee.
Matt Laslo: What do you make of President Donald Trump threatening to ditch America’s NATO allies in future conflicts because they have refused to help provide the naval support to reopen the Strait of Hormuz?
Sen. Tim Kaine: “He’s been non-stop screwing around with NATO allies during his whole time in office.”
ML: “Yeah?”
